Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

University of Nebraska Student Records Breach Exposes 650,000 Individuals

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The University of Nebraska is investigating a breach of their student information database discovered late Wednesday night last week. The security intrusion affected the Nebraska Student Information System, the University said in a statement late last week, it was caught by an …

Mind-Controlled Video Game Technology Not Yet Awesome but Still Cool

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Every now and then a gimmick mind-control gesture is made from a technology company that tells people we’re a step closer to controlling computers with our minds. The Wall Street Journal has published an article on several such companies who are using …

Diablo III Hacked Account Rumors Abound After Launch

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Activision-Blizzard has a penchant and reputation for making excellent, blockbuster games and Diablo 3 has been no exception. As of it’s launch, it came with some expected caveats including an always-connected element that forces players to connect to an Internet account in …

NASA Denies Breach Claim by “The Cyber Warriors Team” Iranian Hacker Group

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

As a high profile agency within the US government, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a likely target for hackers looking to make their bones in the hacker scene. As a result, when last week it was announced that a …

Sony Patent Reveals Weird Gameplay Rewind Advertisement Scheme

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The folks over at ComputerAndVideoGames.com discovered an odd Sony patent filed last July that would enable an advertiser to display an advertisement while a video game is playing (allowing it to continue running in the background) and then rewind the game afterwards so …

EMC President Pat Gelsinger Materializes Data Infrastructure in theCube at EMC World 2012

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer of EMC, dropped into theCube at EMC World 2012 to speak with John Furrier and Dave Vellante—he visits every year at EMC World and always brings a lot of interesting insights into the moving-and-shaking projects …

FBI Shuts Down DNSChanger in July; Google Sets Out to Warn the Infected

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It’s the year 2012 and Mayan doomsday movies will abound—even though we unearthed another Mayan calendar that doesn’t end this year—for the Internet, we have a different blackout on the way and one that will affect more than 500,000 people. These people …

VCE Chairman Michael Capellas Cheers On Convergence in theCube at EMC World 2012

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon brought Michael Capellas, chairman of technology company VCE, into theCube at EMC World 2012 and spoke about the market for infrastructure solutions. As an infrastructure provider using a channeled distribution model and partnering with the …

Anonymous Allegedly Leaks 1.7 GB U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

In what seems to be the most recent attention-grabbing stunt by the hactivist collective Anonymous is the announcement of the leak of 1.7 GB of data from a U.S. government entity whose job it is to inform the public of crime statistics. …

Peter Chang CEO of Oxygen Cloud Talks Infrastructure at EMC World 2012

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

EMC has always been about storage and, as a result, how storage effects the use of data in computing architectures. Products such as Oxygen Cloud seeks to be part of this decoupling of data from computation, enabling data to float free from …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

University of Nebraska Student Records Breach Exposes 650,000 Individuals

Mind-Controlled Video Game Technology Not Yet Awesome but Still Cool

NASA Denies Breach Claim by “The Cyber Warriors Team” Iranian Hacker Group

Sony Patent Reveals Weird Gameplay Rewind Advertisement Scheme

EMC President Pat Gelsinger Materializes Data Infrastructure in theCube at EMC World 2012

FBI Shuts Down DNSChanger in July; Google Sets Out to Warn the Infected

VCE Chairman Michael Capellas Cheers On Convergence in theCube at EMC World 2012

Anonymous Allegedly Leaks 1.7 GB U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Data

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